RICHARD FARIÑA
Richard Fariña (March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) was an American folksinger, songwriter, poet and novelist. (More from Wikipedia)
As I wrote about Bob Dylan in my last post, his first album, Bob Dylan sold modestly; and Dylan became known as “Hammond’s Folly” around Columbia Records – John H. Hammond had decided to sign Dylan on the spot after hearing him perform on September 14, 1961 at the apartment of Carolyn Hester and Richard Fariña (two folksingers that I also wrote about last month), though he evidently made a formal audition first (no recorded evidence of that audition survives, unfortunately).
(April 2015/1)
